SPACE, Astronomy News, Nov 28, 2011

This Week On The Space Show Space Fellowship In these weekly radio interviews David regularly appears on over 60 networked stations across Australia with all the latest news and on general astronomy and space discovery issues. David's audience numbers around 4 million listeners weekly! ... See all stories on this topic »

Spaced Out! Curiosity bound for Mars ABC Online (blog) And he rubs shoulders with some of the world's most prestigious space scientists and astronomyinstitutions. Each Tuesday at 6.20am on ABC Riverina Breakfast, Dave talks with Anne Delaney (a fellow space science fanatic) about the latest astronomy news ... See all stories on this topic »

Amateur astronomer glimpses an alien solar system Discover Magazine (blog) Below is a gallery of exoplanets that have been directly imaged using telescopes on ground and in space. Click the thumbnail picture to get a bigger picture and more information, and scroll through the gallery using the left and right arrows. See all stories on this topic » Discover Magazine (blog)

Lakeville astronomer Mike Renzi to speak at Rotary Club meeting Middleboro Gazette MIDDLEBORO — Lakeville astronomer Mike Renzi will present a slide show with images of deepspace objects, planets, and asteroid videos that he has taken from my observatory when he appears as the guest speaker at a Middleboro Rotary Club dinner ... See all stories on this topic »

Peoria Challenger Space Center offers new 'Family STAR Night' Arizona Republic Challenger Space Center Arizona is offering a new "Family STAR Night" program, an expanded event featuring space-themed family fun. This interactive astronomy night featuring activities for all ages will be on select Saturday evenings throughout the ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Progenitor Problem Universe Today But, apart from that, the steps that led up to the explosion are a mystery (Credit:NASA/Chandra). With so much of our current understanding of the universe based on Type 1a supernovae data, a good deal of current research is focused upon just how ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

One People, One Sky, One App! Astronomers Without Borders Endorses SkySafari ... PR Web (press release) ... makers of the award-winning SkySafari astronomy apps, announced a major endorsement byAstronomers Without Borders, a global non-profit organization promoting better international relations through shared interest in astronomy and space exploration ... See all stories on this topic »

Indra's Salty SMOS Satellite Is All Wet With Upgrades SatNews Publishers Indra, a major Information Technology company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America finished the upgrade of the SMOS (Soil Moisture & Ocean Salinity) data processing system installed at the European Space Astronomy Centre... See all stories on this topic » SatNews Publishers

How to Spot Planet Venus in the Sky Space.com SPACE.com will have more to say as we draw closer to this very special celestial event. Stay tuned! Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other ... See all stories on this topic »

South Africa's SKA bid gets new campaign Bizcommunity.com Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor said in a statement read by Moonsamy: "South Africa has come of age when it comes to astronomy capacity and capabilities. Our infrastructure and human capital development investments in space science and ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Occultations? Why, Indeed! Wildwood Astronomer Rolls His Eyes Heavenward Dade County Sentinel Smith, who grew up in Ohio, got interested in astronomy via splashy kid-lit – “I'ma big science fiction reader since the fourth grade, when Heinlein came out with Space Patrol” – and built his first telescope at 11 from a box of tubes and rings ... See all stories on this topic »

Youngest Supernova Imaged Right after Explosion Fars News Agency The results will be published this week in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The telescopes participating in the research were NASA's telescopes at Robledo de Chavela (Madrid) and those of the National Geographic Institute in Yebes (Guadalajara).... See all stories on this topic » Fars News Agency

South Jersey Skies: The rock that missed us Gloucester County Times - NJ.com Space numbers are generally big, and difficult to visualize. So it might be good to do what many astronomy instructors do to convey the scale of things in our universe. Let's build a scale model. We'll reduce the size of everything down to something ... See all stories on this topic » Gloucester County Times - NJ.com

What's Up in the Sky: Astronomy for December Akron Beacon Journal Q: I've seen the International Space Station, and it is really bright sometimes. How many lights are on the ISS? — Jerry G., Strasburg. A: None that we can see. The bright streak you see is the sunlight reflecting off the 3883 square yards of solar ... See all stories on this topic »

New Planetarium Brings Outer Space Into The Classroom in Bronxville Patch.com “With this system,” says Middle School Science teacher Karen Green, “we can capture the imaginations of our students, and teach not only astronomy, but also evolution, ecology, and so much more.” The teachers spent the first part of the training ... See all stories on this topic »

Texas A&M Astronomers Prove Instrumental in Shedding Light on Dark Energy Texas A&M University "We are fortunate at Texas A&M to have both the excellent students and staff as well as the high-quality lab space required to build such precision instrumentation," DePoy says. "Our team includes undergraduate and graduate students from several ... See all stories on this topic » Texas A&M University

What does the future of space exploration hold? io9 Shara tells us about NASA's upcoming mission to Mars, how our descendants will go about terraforming the red planet, Jupiter's mysterious (and potentially life-harboring) moon, Europa — and why this truly is the golden age of astronomy. See all stories on this topic »

Thankful Astronomer Universe Today If only it would lighten up and let some more IR through so we didn't have to send telescopes to space to study this region of the spectrum. I'm thankful for this lump of rock, third from the Sun, we're all riding on. It the grand scheme of things, ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

AKARI operation completed Space Daily AKARI was launched on February 22 (JST), 2006 from the Uchinoura Space Center by the MV Launch Vehicle No. 8. It is the first Japanese infrared astronomical satellite, and has been operated beyond its expected lifetime. AKARI provided infrared source ... See all stories on this topic »

Student Aids In Tracking Down Near Earth Asteroids Universe Today Right now a program headed by Mark Trueblood with Robert Crawford (Rincon Ranch Observatory) and Larry Lebofsky (Planetary Science Institute) is being executed at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory to help catalog NEOs – and it's being assisted ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

Solar eclipse this Friday could wow small audience msnbc.com ... please email Clara Moskowitz at cmoskowitz@space.com and Denise Chow at dchow@space.com. Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other publications, ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Thanksgiving wish Discover Magazine (blog) by Phil Plait in Geekery, Humor | 3 comments | RSS feed | Trackback > Phil Plait, the creator of BadAstronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble SpaceTelescope and six more working on astronomy education, ... See all stories on this topic »

A Step-by-Step Guide to Cosmology's Best-Kept Secret Scientific American (blog) We all know that light goes at finite speed, but it's worth recalling what that means forastronomical observations: if we see a hypothetical galaxy that's one million light-years away, we are detecting light that was emitted 1 million years ago. ... See all stories on this topic » Scientific American (blog)

Hero dev writes the CODE that COULD SAVE THE WORLD Register NEOs are keeping astronomers very busy. Those starry-eyed boffins are keeping a close watch on such objects and hope to discover as many of them as possible. By tracking them, space experts can compute more accurate orbits. "In this way, if a potential ... See all stories on this topic »

Copy of Qur'an in space The Muslim News Borzu is now an editorial member of Aseman-e-Shab magazine which is a leadingastronomy and space science journal in the Middle East. Borzu, who was born in Iran and has been involved in researching on space science for over 40 years, was the publisher ... See all stories on this topic » The Muslim News

Wilderness Center offers full December calendar New Philadelphia Times Reporter Just how big is the universe? How far have we explored? What do we know about the space in outerspace? Family Astronomy programs are generally 30 to 45 minutes long and include a Planetarium show. Free. Happy Bird Day! Drop-In, 10 am to 4 pm Dec. ... See all stories on this topic »

'Perfect black' coating can render a 3D object flat, raises intriguing dark ... U of M News Service (press release) "Since deep space itself is a perfect dark background, if a planet or star were surrounded by a thick, sooty atmosphere of light-absorbing carbon nanomaterial gases, it would become invisible due to the same principle," Guo said. ... See all stories on this topic »

IT cos, developers embracing smart tech in Indian cities Times of India Ashwin Mahesh, now CEO of the Bangalore start-up Mapunity, had studied physics, management,astronomy and atmospheric sciences before landing a job at NASA. During his five-year stint there, he researched polar clouds using remote sensing, ... See all stories on this topic »

The green ghost of a distant dead star Discover Magazine (blog) You can see it if you peruse this lovely Hubble Space Telescope picture that was just released: Isn't that pretty? As much as I like it, the most interesting thing in it, though is actually rather difficult to see here. ... See all stories on this topic »

New Understanding of Mayan Texts Santa Barbara Edhat "This interpretation shows that the same religious ideas of astronomy, calendrics, space, and time were held in the Classic period, through the Postclassic period, and into early Colonial times," he said. See all stories on this topic »

The expanding universe hits a breaking point Globe and Mail Here's a final word from Dave Rothstein, an astrophysics postdoctoral fellow in the department of astronomy at Cornell University. Writing on Cornell's Ask AnAstronomer website, he says that if the universe is infinite, its size doesn't change ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Minister has high hopes for SKA Independent Online (blog) Pandor pointed out that space science, including astronomy, was one of five key priority research areas identified by her department for particular assistance. Another was human and social dynamics and was equally important. The others are energy, ... See all stories on this topic » Independent Online (blog)

Rivals work well together Bryan College Station Eagle It's part of a space race to build the most powerful telescope in the world. In astronomy, UT and A&M have been working together ever since A&M started its program near the beginning of Robert Gates' presidency. The university conducted an external ... See all stories on this topic »

New projector at MSUM Planetarium helps viewers travel the stars WDAY A feature that shows the satellites orbiting earth is one of Astronomy Professor Matt Craig's favorites. Matt Craig: “It reminds me of a scene in Star Wars, In the first Star Wars Movie where your watching the rebel commanders and the Death Star comes ... See all stories on this topic »

Revving Up For The Next Space Race Daily Free Press (subscription) “A Chinese lunar base by 2020 would certainly give China an advantage at a time that the United States is reducing its spending on space projects.” BU astronomy professor Andrew West said China's decision to travel to the moon may have more to do with ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA launch tower goes for a ride : Space and Astronomy news ... By Jonathan Nally THE MOBILE LAUNCHER that will host NASA's Space Launch System and new Orion spacecraft was moved to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to begin two weeks of structural and systems tests. This is the first ... Space and Astronomy news daily...

Gallery ... - Space and Astronomy news daily – SpaceInfo.com.au By Jonathan Nally Space and Astronomy news daily – SpaceInfo.com.au ... Saturn's moon Enceladus appears in silhouette in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... Adapted from information issued byNASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. ... Space and Astronomy news daily...

Mars mission on its way! : Space and Astronomy news daily ... By Jonathan Nally Space and Astronomy news daily – SpaceInfo.com.au. Space and Astronomy ... A HISTORIC VOYAGE to Mars has begun with the launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. The mission will ... Space and Astronomy news daily...

Bay News 9's post on Space & Astronomy | Latest updates on Sulia Space & Astronomy ... You are listening to Bay News 9. www.sulia.com/.../f/355f6b7073f68e61669503e4d2ed40f3/

NASA Successfully Launches Mars Science Lab Mission - Night Sky ... NASA has launched the most capable machine, nicknamed Curiosity, ever ... You are here:Astronomy News » Mars » NASA Successfully Launches Mars .... Visit the Night Sky Observer for more astronomy and space news or are looking for . ... www.nightskyobserver.com/.../nasa-successfully-launches-mar...

NASA's Hubble Confirms That Galaxies Are The ... - e! Science News New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding ... Get science news via ...Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 14:50 in Astronomy & Space ... esciencenews.com/.../nasas.hubble.confirms.that.galaxies.are.th...

NASA develops new game-changing technology - News Astronomy Space / Astronomy News and Articles ... 21, 2011) — Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be ... www.newsastronomy.com/.../13772-nasa-develops-new-game...

What's On Astronomy.FM | Astronomy.FM SET #2: EarthSky news break ~ 365 Days of Astronomy ~ Talking Space ... to pursue science takes imagination – and a few NASA-designed robots in the ... astronomy.fm/2011/11/26/today-on-astronomy-fm-radio-2/

NASA Ames Features Live Broadcast of Mars Launch « AstroNews AstroNews is an astronomy and spaceflight-related website providing the latest news and ... Full Story: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2011/11 -96AR.html ... Ames Research Center Tags: space, news, ames, science, NASA ... astronewsus.wordpress.com/.../nasa-ames-features-live-broadc...

email: info@als-alexander.org or interalex2@gmail.com